Koauthara, Arigato for the review! Here is the first trial of Ethan and Harumi's survival!

Chapter Eight~Bear Encounters

Wednesday

Day Two

11:22 am

Downtown Philadelphia~Lexington

Ethan and Harumi were walking on the sidewalk of Downtown Philadelphia in Lexington. Harumi had her black hoodie up covering her brown long and tangled hair as she kept her distance away from her father. Ethan was in front of her as she walked behind slowly passing by people.

Ethan looked down at the ticket before he looked across the street of the parking garage that the first trial led them to.

"Hey, Haru-,"

Harumi stood still. Her feet were planted onto the sidewalk as her blue eyes widened. She was having another triggering daymare.

"Shaun, run!" Harumi's voice echoed in her mind. "Get away from him!"

Shaun didn't know what to do, so he tried to run upstairs and hide. But as soon as Harumi tried to followed her brother upstairs, she was grabbed the Origami Killer once again. He body slammed her onto the table as she was trying to break free out of his iron grip hand.

"You are a disgrace to your father," The Origami Killer said to her. "He never cared about you. He only care about his son."

"Get off me, asshole,"

Once the killer had her still, Harumi looked over to her left to Shaun slowly coming down the stairs holding something in his hands. He was aiming it at the back of the spine of the killer's. Until Harumi realized that he had her gun in his hands. He was going to kill the killer.

"No, Shaun, run,"

He didn't have the courage to use the gun, so he dropped it and started running towards the locked door. Harumi was once again drugged with chloroform as she was knocked out, falling onto the kitchen floor.

"Harumi,"

"Ahh!" Harumi screamed as she covered her head. Only a few people heard her screaming as they look at her and Ethan, before they walked away, just only a few meters. "Don't hurt me!"

"Harumi, it's me," Ethan hugged his daughter. Her blue eyes widened as she looked up slowly. "I'm here. Did something frigented you,"

"It was more like a daymare to me, Ethan," Harumi corrected him, before pushing him off of her. "Come on. We need to find the place,"

Ethan pointed the parking garage. "It's right across the street, Harumi,"

"Oh," she said softly.

Ethan started walking across the street until he noticed that Harumi wasn't next to him. He turned around to see her, still standing still on the sidewalk, before he walked towards her.

"What's the matter," He asked.

Harumi looked at his right hand. She wanted him to hold her hand as they walked across the street, but she was soon to be seventeen and also she would be acting like a child. But she had the courage to ignore the question to ask him and ran across the street. Ethan followed her as he walked across the street towards the emo teenager.

"What was that?" Ethan asked. "Are you going through one of your side effects of those pills the psychiatrist prescribed to you?"

"No…" Harumi said softly before walking into the parking garage. It covered her and her father up from the rain as they walked towards the mechanic who was under a van fixing it.

"Excuse me?" Ethan called out.

He didn't hear Ethan. Harumi looked at him as he looked at his daughter.

"Let me try," Harumi bend down to see the mechanic who was still preoccupied by fixing the van. "Hey!"

"Oh, I'm sorry," the mechanic reveal himself as he pulled himself out from underneath the van. "Now, what can I do you for?"

Ethan pulled out the ticket and show it the mechanic. "I like to get… my car,"

The mechanic looked at the ticket which he taken out of Ethan's hand, before looking at Harumi who was looking away from him, hiding her face with the black hoodie. He walked towards this office as the two Mars' followed him.

He explained that the car was here for two years and he checked everything for the car to run smoothly. Ethan and Harumi were confused when he said that the car was here for two years. He handed the architect father the key to the car, as they thanked them and walked towards the elevator to the third floor down.

As the Mars' reached the third floor, they walked around the car lot to see many cars parked and also covered.

"Did the killer said anything about which car?" Harumi asked.

"No, he didn't," Ethan looked at the keys and noticed at car opener button. "But we'll know which one,"

He pressed for the doors to be opened. They heard a car opening noise from far away. Harumi walked around as she followed the car opening noise. Harumi finally found the car, alongside with her father, as she climbed into the driver side and close the door. Ethan walked towards the driver side as he opened the door. Harumi was holding onto the steering wheel of the car, before she he looked up at her father's concern eyes.

"What are you doing?" Ethan asked.

"Get on the passenger side," Harumi requested. "I'm driving,"

"You don't even have your driver's license,"

"Yes, I do," Harumi replied to father, before getting out of the car and walking around to the passenger side of the car. "I'll can prove it to you,"

"You can prove it to me later," Ethan climbed into the car and close the door. Harumi did the same on her side. "Once, you've taken your driver's test and you are street legal to drive. Then maybe I can let you have my car,"

Harumi crossed her arms. "You are no fun sometimes, Ethan Mars," she pouted to him, before she pulled out her black earbuds and listened to her music.

Ethan needed her help for this one. But she shut him away from her once again. Was she really telling the truth about her driver's license? Or was she just making it up so she can drive? But, now it doesn't matter to him. He needs to save his son and figure out what to do on the first trial. He looked on his side of the door to find a GPS, which was turned off. He place it into the holder as he looked at it.

"What's this?" Harumi touched the screen.

"Your destination is four miles from here,"

"What the fuck?" Harumi said surprised. Ethan was surprised as well, but he didn't say anything about it.

"Leave the parking lot and take the first right,"

Ethan turned the key as the car started. Harumi place on her seatbelt as she held onto it while still listening to her music on her phone. Before they drove out of the parking garage, Harumi received a phone call from her mother, Grace. She might be calling to see if she was cutting school once again.

"Take a left at the next intersection,"

Harumi looked down at her phone as it vibrate in her hands. Her mother was constantly calling her, hoping that she will answer, but she had no other choice but to press ignore. Instead, she decided to turn off her phone and listened to the rain tapping on the window and car.

"Keep to the right and take the first exit,"

Once the GPS told Ethan where to go, it lead them to a highway over a very fast highway with the speed limit of fifty five. He put the car in park, and he rested his head and hands on the steering wheel. Harumi straightening herself in the seat as she looked around.

"Where are we?" Harumi asked her father. "I don't recognize the highway,"

"Me either, Harumi,"

"You have reached you destination,"

Harumi and Ethan looked at the GPS as it was giving them anxiety about the first trial.

"Are you ready to show your courage in order to save your son? Listen carefully, take the highway and drive against the traffic for five miles. If you haven't reached your destination in five minutes, you will have failed."

"Drive against the traffic?!" Harumi looked out the window and watched the passing cars on the highway above them. "That's crazy. A person from my school did it and the police got him, when they flipped his car over. But I was just a dare!"

"Harumi," Ethan covered his face. "I know you don't want to be in the same car as me. I don't want to do this either,"

"But, Ethan, what about Shaun," Harumi asked him. "We came to do this for him, right?"

"Yes, but Harumi, this is suicide." Ethan told his daughter. "I can't imagine if you'd die in this car while on the highway,"

"Dad, I don't care," Harumi retorted. "I have survived cutting myself so many times and also drinking to the last drop. We have to try,"

Ethan looked at Harumi's determination as she held onto the gear shifter. Somehow, she acted like him when he was young like her age in high school. He looked down at Harumi holding onto the gear shifter of the car as he slowly places his hand on top of hers, feeling the warmness. They both held onto it as shifted it the drive. Ethan still has his foot on the brakes, until he slowly let go and stomped his foot in the accelerator as he drove to the wrong way lane.

Harumi held onto her seat as she watched the passing cars pass by them while her father avoided them.

"Come on!" He yelled.

He turned to his left as he avoid the car. Harumi watched as she looked out for upcoming cars in their way. Harumi decided to yell with him to calm her nerves, until Ethan stepped on the accelerator hard making the car go faster in the rain and it started spinning around in circles. That's how the person from school nearly got killed and lose control of the vehicle.

"Aww, hell!" Harumi retorted, before holding onto the car seat. "This is not a good time to be doing doughnuts, Ethan!"

Ethan tries his best to spin the car back into the road, without wasting anytime. Harumi tries to seek help by grabbing hold on the wheel after taking off her seatbelt. Once the car was in control again, he hissed at his daughter to put her seatbelt back on and yet she did.

Ethan and Harumi was hoping that they were getting close once they heard the GPS saying only just two miles, but they have to get past something that was up ahead.

"Toll booth!" Harumi pointed it out.

"I see that," Ethan replied. He decided to take the right toll booth on Harumi's side. "Come on! Move outta of the goddamn way! Move outta the way! Come on!"

"Holy shit!" Harumi covered her face as Ethan was about to hit the car coming out of the toll booth, until he back up and move out of their way.

"You only have one mile to go, before you reach your destination,"

Harumi opened her eyes to the sound of a familiar sound that she recognized every time when she was a runaway of law. The police. The law. The one time. Plus also known as the fuzz.

"Uh, Ethan," Harumi looked over her seat to see two police cars. One coming on Ethan's side and the other one tailing the car from behind. "We have company and it doesn't involve me,"

Ethan looked to his right to see a police car on his side. "Oh, fuck!"

"No, I'm not going back," Harumi unbuckled herself and use the steering wheel to ram the police car out of the way.

"Harumi, what the hell?!" Ethan loses control of Harumi using the steering wheel, until they reached the tunnel. Ethan looked back the windshield, until he noticed a truck coming with a trailer holding a wheelbarrow.

"Harumi!" Ethan called out her name.

"What, Ethan?" She asked until she looked at the windshield see the truck coming towards them. Ethan decided to punch the accelerator as the car drove faster than before. Harumi was still driving the car as she pass by the truck in the wheelbarrow fell off the trailer and hit the first cop car.

"One down, one to-" Harumi looked back to see a truck holding gasoline as she gave up on the wheel and let Ethan drive the rest of the way. He turned to right as the last cop car was hit by the gas guzzling truck.

"Well, um what could be worst?" Ethan asked.

"That!" Harumi pointed out to a barricade of cop cars in front of them.

"Oh, fuck,"

Ethan rammed into them as a few police officers were on the ground, blocking away from the incoming car.

One police officer had his gun out, aiming and shooting at the car. As Ethan tries to gain control over it once again, this time it was losing control. Until they drove off the road into a ditch, making the car flipped upside down and had an accident.

But there was one thing that they will always remember.

Always wear your seatbelt while driving down a wrong way highway in high speed.

"Destination reached. Please press the screen,"

Ethan started moving around the car while he and Harumi were upside down. Harumi started to wake up once she smelled the burning smoke of the backseat. Ethan and Harumi tried to reach to the GPS as it was telling them what to do next. Somehow, Ethan reached and touched the screen until they given new instructions.

"Your reward is in the glove compartment. The key is in the GPS,"

Ethan reaches for the GPS as he slammed it against the ceiling of the car, until it was finally into pieces. He picked up the small key as he looked at it, before trying it reached the glove compartment. But he suddenly dropped the key, until Harumi catches it.

"I *cough* *cough* got it," Harumi said before she reaches out the glove compartment and turned it to open it.

A small SD card fallen out of it as it between them. Ethan picked it up as he place it into his pocket. Both Mars looked behind them to see that the backseat on fire They started unbuckling their seatbelts as Ethan fallen first and Harumi fallen on top of her father, groaning in pain. Harumi pushed the door, as the architect father heard her daughter screaming in pain.

They knew that they have to get out the car in the hurry, once the emo teenager got hurt by something. Ethan kicked the passenger side of the door, as it was open for them to escape the burning car.

Ethan came out first as he helped his daughter out the car. They ran to a far away distance away from the burning car, as the two finally had the chance to breathe. Harumi was coughing the most since she inhale that much and also from smoking her cigarettes. Her lungs weren't agreeing with her, so she started throwing up as Ethan helped her by, patting her back gently.

"OK, I'm alright," Harumi said as she slowly rises up from the muddy ground. "I'm alright,"

As she walked towards her father, she felt a burn on her leg. She looked to see her left side of her black leggings burned as it left a second degree burn on leg. She reaches down as she felt the stinging burning mark, making her scream out in pain.

"Harumi, that does not look good,"

"You're telling me," Harumi said through tears, "It's worse than a cigarette burn,"

Ethan pulled out the phone and place the SD card into it. He watches the screen as it loaded up the video of Shaun still trapped inside the well. He was trying to reach out and grabbed it as he kept missing it with his slippery cold hands. Harumi turned around to see her father fallen to the muddy ground while looking at the phone. She walked towards him and look at the phone to see that they have earn some of the letter to the address.

"Well… it could have been worse," Harumi stated, before the car that the Origami Killer provided them for the first trial exploded in front of them. Thank God that they were far away from the explosion. Harumi and Ethan started looking at the burning car as it left them speechless. They could died today, after harming innocent people on the highway. But they survive and the fun just only began for the Origami Killer.

Cross Roads Motel

3:35 pm

Ethan and Harumi returned back to the motel after surviving the first trial. Ethan was suffering a bleeding forehead and two sore ribs. Harumi was suffering a bleeding forehead as well. A sore right arm and now a second degree burn on her left leg which causes the left side of her leggings to vine through.

They were leaning against the railing, still suffering from their injuries, until Harumi started to talk first.

"Ethan," Harumi called out his name as he looked at his daughter who was still suffering from her head and leg injury. "I should have went to school today and got my ass kicked instead,"

"Why?" Ethan asked.

"I'm not feeling so well,"

"Well, maybe it's because we just escaped out of a burning car, which exploded,"

"Yeah, well the police didn't even care to save us, instead of shooting at us,"

"You the one who taken the wheel and almost got the police officer killed,"

"And you're the one who taken the first trial in the first place,"

"We taken the trial in the first place, Harumi Grace Mars,"

Harumi scoffed before she stopped leaning on the railing. "I'm not going to argue with you. I'm heading back to the room,"

Harumi slowly walked towards Room 207, as she limping on one leg since it left a nasty second degree burn on it. She was afraid to touch the burn mark since it was standing out from her black leggings. Once she made it to the bed, her body flopped down onto it as she slowly looked up at the ceiling. She started to feel more blood coming out of her forehead and her right arm was really sore as she can still move it.

She decided to close her eyes, hoping that the nightmare wasn't true.

But she was wrong…

While her eyes were closed, she can hear a woman's voice in the room as she shifted to right on the bed. She was trying to blocked out the voice, hoping that she was losing her mind, since she didn't take her pills.

She felt something grabbing her leg. She kicked back as it hit someone in the chest.

"No… leave me alone…" she said softly before she felt something grabbing her leg once more, until she woke up feeling something stinging her leg. She screamed as she opened her eyes to see her father and a woman in her twenties at the foot of the bed. Harumi looked at her father and then back to the woman.

"What… in the hell… are you doing to me?"

"Relax, she's just trying to help," Ethan replied.

"Get her away from me," Harumi pulled her legs closer to her as she scooted away from them.

"She just wanted to help," Ethan said. "Let her look at you,"

Harumi decided to listen to her father, as she scooted closer to him and the woman. She grabbed her leg gently as she looked at the nasty burn mark.

"This is one nasty burn mark you got," the woman said.

"Thanks for pointing that out,"

"Shush," Ethan hissed.

Harumi watched her as she walked into the bathroom and grabbed some anti burn cream. She sat back down on the bed. "Hold still, this will ease the pain,"

She slowly place the burn cream on her gently as the emo teenager looked at her and back to her leg, as she felt the pain slowly going away. The burn mark wasn't a dark color anymore, it was more like a fading away color that was slowly going away into her pale skin.

"That should ease the pain,"

"Uh…" Harumi crossed her arms. "Thanks,"

Harumi decided to let her look at her bleeding forehead before the older woman treated it with rubbing alcohol. Ethan left the two alone as he went to go take a shower. Once the shower water was running, the woman decided to talk first to Ethan.

"Talk to me," She said before placing a small band-aid over her bleeding forehead cut, since it wouldn't stop bleeding. "That way I'll know if you pass out,"

"What's your name?"

"Madison,"

"Are you staying at the motel?"

Harumi decided to leave the two adults alone in the motel room as she walked onto the balcony. She closed the door behind her, before she leaned against the railing, feeling and watching the raindrops. Until she heard the door sliding open, she turned around to see the same woman again, before turning back around.

"So, you're his daughter?" Madison asked.

"Yeah, I guess I am,"

"I can tell," she walked towards her and then she next to her on her left. "You look just like him,"

"Thanks,"

"Madison and you are,"

"Harumi,"

"Harumi? That's a beautiful name,"

Harumi blushed slightly. "Thank you,"

The emo teenager decided to leave her on the balcony as she decided to follow her back, before closing the slide door. Ethan finally came out of the bathroom, feeling clean as a whistle.

"Thanks for staying," Ethan said before leaning against the doorframe, looking all smooth. "I feel a lot better now," His daughter was laughing from behind before she flopped down on the bed.

"OK… I better get going now," She walked towards the door as she held onto the door handle, before turning back towards the architect father. "By the way, you never told me your name,"

"Ethan."

"Be careful, you two,"

Once she left the two Mars' alone, the emo teenager looked at her father who was thinking to himself before she speak up.

"I think she likes you,"

"What?" Ethan said confused. "No, she doesn't,"

"Yes, she does," Harumi said. "Do you want me to go asked her,"

"No, you need to stay in the room where I can see you," Ethan replied. "We have almost died today,"

"So, I been in school fights for nearly half of my fall semester and you don't see me complaining,"

"It's because you like being in the principal's office, instead of going to classes,"

Harumi scoffed. "Whatever,"

Ethan moved his daughter's legs out of the way as he pulled out the box from underneath the bed. He walked towards the desk and place the box down before sitting down. He opened it as she looked around it to find the second trial. It was a butterfly origami made out of twenty dollar bills that had a number two on its wing. He opened it slowly as it revealed another address to the next trial.

Ethan slowly got up and place the box cover back on top, before walking towards the bed to place on his black rain coat. He looked down Harumi's sleeping form as she was lightly snoring. He shaked her shoulder to wake her up, until he heard a light moan from her.

"Come on, we're leaving," he said.

"Carry me," she said lifting up her arms.

Ethan slowly lifted her up as he was still experiencing one or maybe two broken ribs. He carry her sleeping self out of the motel room and they were on their way to the next trial.

Sorry, it took so long with this chappie. Somehow it really hard to think about the trial parts of the chapters. I was also busy with typing in new chapters to other stories, just to keep me busy but I finally came back to this. My other Heavy Rain story, My Love Will Never Die Too has been put on hiatus, so I'm sorry for that. Somehow I can't work on two Heavy Rain stories at the same time.